Inter-agency coordination

Strategic partnerships and inter-agency cooperation are necessary to improve effectiveness and efficiency as well as to avoid the duplication of work in maintaining and enhancing industrial safety. In a number of cases, the Conference of the Parties has been working jointly with other organizations, Conventions and programmes to this end (e.g. for the development of an online training course on industrial accidents). This approach should be further enhanced.

One way of enhancing the cooperation is to establish regular coordination meetings between partners. To this end, UNECE organised in April 2013 the First Inter-Agency Coordination Meeting on Industrial Accidents at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Participants valued the initiative very much, so that they decided to hold annual meetings in the future:

Fifth Inter-Agency Coordination Meeting will be hosted by the European Commission in Brussels in spring 2017.

Another way of facilitating inter-agency cooperation is to strengthen the ties between organizations. Therefore, you will find below a list with partner organizations, including links to their events and contact persons.